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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Second Challenge Submission - World Eater Terminators and Heavy Support Marines

Feel the love...more lads from the 12th Legion

My
second submission to Curt's Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is more 30k Marinesfrom the 12th Legion, the cute, cuddly and progressive chaps
known as the "World Eaters". Whether your world is run by a deeply
flawed totalitarian or exists as a fluffy, enlightened sunny-ways
democracy, the World Eaters will appear in orbit and render the whole
thing down to particles without pausing too long to consider "why". In
this, they were ideal tools for the Emperor's so-called "Great Crusade",
and even more useful to the Warmaster Horus when he launched his
rebellion.

Terminator squad from the World Eaters

Wrecking
everything in sight is a lot of work, even in the far future. The
troops assembled here should make an important contribution to those
efforts thanks to their heavy armour and/or absurdly large guns.

The
unit Sergeant has a fancy sword, and the thing up top is supposed to be
a grenade launcher, but perhaps is some kind of future go-pro system so
Angron can have a record of any carnage these chaps are involved with

I need to find a way to make these power swords look fancier, but he'll do

The
first part of this submission contains a five-man unit of Terminators,
Space Marines wearing even heavier armour than their regular
foot-slogging buddies. Teleporting to the battlefield to face down and
BBQ opponents which give even regular Space Marines a moment of pause,
the Terminator Marines with their big guns, power fists and bulky armour
enjoy choice assignments in their Legion duties.

I quite like the double-drum ammo clips on the so-called "combi bolters" and the chap pointing looks like he means business...

If
you carried a big flame-thrower like this fellow, and your job is
wrecking sh!t, why you would be on top of the world, so I did this
fellow up to look like he's giving a fist bump - "fire FTW!"

While
the deeply flawed rules mechanics of GW's 40k rules system make these
figures real losers on the table, from the collecting and fun point of
view, these are great models and entertaining troops to the deploy into
games. The models are plastics figures from GW's "Betrayal at Calth"
box set/game, the model set that keeps on giving...

Heavy support squad with Plasma Cannons

The
other part of this submission is a five-man unit of heavy support Space
Marines. The 30k setting has a vast buffet of devastating weapons to
choose from, and the Space Marine Legions are well-fed in this respect.
These particular weapons are plasma cannons, heavy energy weapons
useful for obliterating any opponents that might appear. And where the
Terminators are not nearly as useful on the tabletop as their back story
might imply, these chaps exceed the hype, wiping out entire groups of
absurd loyalists with relative ease. Your so-called "Emperor" can't
save you now...

The
30k setting is about overkill - why shoot just one big science fiction
gun at something, when you could shoot five of them at something?

These
models are Mark IV armoured Space Marine models from Forge World,
purchased years ago. In the spirit of the Challenge, I thought it would
be good to get to a long lost projects of years past such as this
bunch, at least in the early stages...

Forge World decal sheet came in handy with these models

So in all this has ten 28mm infantry models, good for another 50 points towards my overall total and my 30k side duel. Stay tuned for more 30k as the Challenge progresses...